Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
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Foolish Consistency
The ability to balance consistency and flexibility is a significant factor in achieving success on dynamic, complex projects. Methodologies, standards and procedures must be adapted in a way that promotes — and sustains — optimal performance in a variety of changing conditions.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Project managers and teams must be able to perform in the face of changing and often conflicting criteria. They must be completely immersed in their work while being aware of what that work actually is. Optimal performance requires a balance between thoroughness and efficiency, and between resources and what is expected from them.
Taking a systems oriented view of the world, it is clear that everything is caused by something. Every outcome is the result of a process — the set of actions and interactions that lead to a result. A project is a process to obtain objectives — project management is a process.
Optimal performance at the organizational level is measured by achievement of goals like sustainable profits, and satisfied clients, business partners and community. It depends on the effectiveness of the organization’s processes. On a personal level, optimal performance is measured in terms of health, happiness, sense of purpose, …
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